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Published 10 Mar 2026, 14:23 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of Post Mortem CT Scanning

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Lancashire County Council (Local council)·On behalf of: SOCIAL VALUE PORTAL LTD

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85)Community & Cultural Services (98) Delivery: North West (UKD4)
Planned pipeline value£3,841,520pipeline notice, not a live tender · 1 value update
Tender notice expected 30 May 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 10 yrsends 9 Sept 2036 · starts 10 Sept 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Lancashire County Council is conducting preliminary market engagement relating to the provision of Post Mortem CT Scanning.

Prior to publication of a full invitation to tender (anticipated May 2026), interested organisations are invited to engage with this preliminary market engagement exercise.

Interested organisations should:

  • Review the Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire
  • Submit a response to the Questionnaire via email to [email protected] by no later than 02nd April 2026 at 12 noon.

CPV: Medical imaging services · Other community, social and personal services · Pathology services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 10 yrsSME
Contract period: 10 Sept 2026 – 9 Sept 2036 (10 yrs)
Delivery: North WestEligibility: SME eligible
85111800 Pathology services85150000 Medical imaging services98000000 Other community, social and personal services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Lancashire County Council buys Medical imaging services (CPV 8515), and who usually turns up

Lancashire County Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Medical imaging services (CPV 8515) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerLancashire County Council · division 85
The marketMedical imaging services (CPV 8515)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 of 23 known-size awards · market: CPV 8515 · North West England, n=20
43%95%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means registered in North West England.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 22 of 26 known-location awards · market: CPV 8515 · North West England, n=20
85%70%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North West England.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 decided notices · market: CPV 8515 · North West England, n=5
50 days30 days

Half of these awards were announced within 50 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 13 of 28 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8515 · North West England, n=26
46%92%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer10 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
30% had one bid
The market11 lots with bid counts · CPV 8515 · UK-wide
9% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid30% / 9%
Buyer: 3 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
2–340% / 9%
Buyer: 4 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
4–630% / 45%
Buyer: 3 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 36%
Buyer: 0 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 11 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer7 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
14% below estimate
The market5 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8515 · UK-wide
80% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate14% / 80%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 5 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%86% / 0%
Buyer: 6 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 20%
Buyer: 0 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 8515120 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£3.8m
Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 305 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet17% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 305 similar lots
1 bid17%
51 of 305 similar past lots received 1 bid (17%).
2–333%
102 of 305 similar past lots received 2–3 (33%).
4–629%
87 of 305 similar past lots received 4–6 (29%).
7+21%
65 of 305 similar past lots received 7+ (21%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £3.8m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
10 Mar 2026, 14:23 GMT
Last source update
10 Mar 2026, 17:00 GMT
Authority reference
SG/CORP/LCC/26/351
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-021519
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Medical imaging servicesOther community, social and personal servicesPathology services
Delivery area
North West (UKD4)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-066667 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

10 Mar 2026 → 10 Sept 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published226 days ago
    10 Mar 2026, 14:23 GMT
  2. Market engagement203 days ago
    2 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST

    Lancashire County Council is conducting preliminary market engagement relating to the provision of Post Mortem CT Scanning.

    Prior to publication of a full invitation to tender, interested

    organisations are invited to engage with this preliminary market engagement exercise.

    Interested organisations should:

    • Visit: www.lancashire.gov.uk/business/tenders-and… ↗
    • Navigate to the market engagement project by clicking on the link for Provision of Post Mortem CT Scanning
    • Review the Preliminary Market Engagement document(s) contained on the project page. This document provides more information regarding this preliminary market engagement exercise.
    • Submit your complete questionnaire via email to

    [email protected] by no later than 2nd April 2026 at 12 noon.

  3. Tender notice expected145 days ago
    30 May 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts43 days ago
    10 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Mar 2026
  1. Pipeline notice published
    10 Mar 2026, 14:23 GMT
    UK1
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    10 Mar 2026, 17:00 GMT
    UK2
  3. Published value updated to £3,841,520
    10 Mar 2026, 17:00 GMT
    was £3,841,520

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

Lancashire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PBBJ-2179-TNXM PO Box 100, County Hall, Preston, North West, PR1 0LDContact email

Other public bodies

  • SOCIAL VALUE PORTAL LTDProcuring entityEvaluation and ongoing contract management support for the social value deliverables under the future contract.GB-COH: 09197997GB-PPON: PQHH-4489-TLZM London, LondonContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure